There were 340 shootings in the US in 2018. Of those shootings we lost 373 people. The biggest shooting of 2018 killed 17 people and was in Pompano Beach (Parkland), Florida. The shooting with the most injuries was in Trenton, New Jersey with a total of 19 injuries. In Washington there were 3 shootings.
| state | num_killed | num_injured |
|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 12 | 55 |
| Arizona | 4 | 5 |
| Arkansas | 7 | 17 |
| California | 50 | 136 |
| Colorado | 9 | 27 |
| Connecticut | 0 | 8 |
| Delaware | 5 | 0 |
| District of Columbia | 2 | 23 |
| Florida | 48 | 132 |
| Georgia | 3 | 33 |
| Illinois | 21 | 150 |
| Indiana | 10 | 27 |
| Kansas | 1 | 11 |
| Kentucky | 7 | 25 |
| Louisiana | 15 | 50 |
| Maryland | 13 | 31 |
| Massachusetts | 0 | 4 |
| Michigan | 10 | 28 |
| Minnesota | 1 | 14 |
| Mississippi | 1 | 17 |
| Missouri | 12 | 52 |
| Nebraska | 1 | 16 |
| Nevada | 3 | 15 |
| New Jersey | 4 | 54 |
| New Mexico | 5 | 4 |
| New York | 5 | 53 |
| North Carolina | 14 | 37 |
| Ohio | 13 | 46 |
| Oklahoma | 2 | 19 |
| Pennsylvania | 35 | 63 |
| South Carolina | 5 | 19 |
| Tennessee | 19 | 68 |
| Texas | 29 | 62 |
| Utah | 0 | 4 |
| Virginia | 2 | 17 |
| Washington | 4 | 9 |
| Wisconsin | 1 | 16 |
While California has the largest population it is surprising that Florida and Illinois have a similar number of people injured. California has the highest death toll, while Illinois has the most injured from shootings.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/09/us/california-thousand-oaks-shooting-how-it-unfolded/index.html
A shootings in Thousand Oaks, California left 13 dead and 2 injured. The shooting took place on November 7, 2018. The popular bar at 99 Rolling Oaks Dr was packed with college students that night. Police were on the scene within minutes, but had to wait for back-up after a police officer was fatally shot.
Major cities had the most shootings. While Illinois had the third most shootings the city of Chicago had the most shootings of any city. The midwestern and pacific northwest states had very few shootings.
This map easily compares the size of the shooting to other shootings. It also makes it easy to find shootings in certain areas and data for that shooting.
I decided to use a stacked bar chart. I used a stack chart to show the total killed and injured in each state. I also kept the killed and injured data seperate to show that more people are injured than killed.
California, Florida and Illinois had the most people killed and injured in shootings. Far more people were injured from shootings than died from shootings.